MR. ALDERMAN LAWRENCEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, If the Foreign Office claims the right to protect English masters of English schools Abroad against the interference of the Government of the Country in cases of undue severity practised by masters or monitors, on the ground stated by the masters, that the Home Government permits the masters 1029 of English schools to punish boys in any manner they may think proper?
§ LORD EDMOND FITZMAURICEI am afraid I cannot, undertake to answer hypothetical Questions. So far as I am aware, no such ease has been brought to the notice of the Foreign Office.